The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-01

rat rsa, or Christ, and again in the
time of the prophet The story il,
they say, that when these three men
and the shepherd awoke, they felt hum
CRY and sent one of their number to 60
to the city near. by, called Shahr-i-
Afsoz, to buy bread. On arrival he
found the place much altered, and the
first baker he went TO refused 10 accept
his money. Another to whom he ap-
piled asked him where he got his money
from. The man said il was bis own
and from his own house. He was then
told to point out his house, but he
could not at, first, and eventually rec
6gnized it by a mulberry tree, and
going in he told them to dig in or
tain place, and there they found. sure
enough. his store, a jar full of Daki-
anus coins. The then owner of the
house protested and DAMNED, the house
and coins, as, his, and eventually both
the man and the coins were taken be-.
tore the king When the King, who
was a Christian heard the man's story
and found that he had been asleep for
three hundred and nine years, he
looked on the man as supernatural and
offered toiresign the throne ia his fsvor.
The man deoiinedI and stated that all
be wished was to be allowed TO return
to. his companions ia the. cave. The
King thereuponi accompanied him.
With the King were hawk and a dog,
and a deer being started on the road
was caught By these two and brought
in, thus making third animal in the
party. On arrival at the cave. not only
the original six friends, the Altsi
Azizan and the shepherd, but the King,
and the dog. and the hawk and the
deer. all went of to sleep and never
awoke again for some seven hundred
wears. when theywere awakened by the
arrival of the. Ghahar Var, or the four
friends of the prophet--that is, Omar.
0sman, Abubakr and Ali, who, repeat
ing the Mohammedan creed. at once
swoke the sleepers- The latter got up,
repeated the creed and then fell asleep
again and there they still remain.
e." All this was told me by the Sayedsin
the cave, and they pointed triumph
antly to the relics in proof of their
story. Holding our lighted candles be-,
tween the parings of the wooden screen,
which debars nearer approach to the
sleepers, we were shown some clothes
on the foor, apparently a rough, COM
mon sheet with dark colOred fringedI
cloth above it, which was said to cover
the sleepers., We asked if we were
allowed to look under the cloth, but
that, they said, was impossible, when
they themselves, they said, knew not
what was there. One man had once
tried to look and was immediately
struck blind; but that if we doubted
istthere (pointing in the direction) was
the dog and the deer and the hawk"
Holding the candles to the right We
could then see indiStinctly something
looking like dried bodies of some ami
mails prOpped against the wall. They
were very small. The first, said to be
the dog, was about q foot in height,
and the deer few inches higher; but
it was impossible to say in such light
what animals they were. The bones
of the legs were visible-in fact, the
dogs legs had fallen of. which rather
told against its being asleep; but the
body seemed TO be covered with dry
skin, and yet, on the strength of these
relics some twenty families of Sayeds
are kept in comfort, and live here on
the contributions of pilgrims, with, in
addition, as much land as they require
free of any rent and taxes.-PaA Mall
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